Knee Cap Pain Treatment (with Blood Flow Restriction)

Knee Cap Pain Treatment With Blood Flow Restriction
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💪 In the past two posts, we highlighted the importance of training both the quadriceps and glutes for the treatment of patellofemoral pain syndrome, or knee cap pain. However, the hardest part about training these muscles is that it typically hurts!
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🦵 For all the standing exercises in yesterday’s post, the goal is to only bend your knee in a pain free zone. Meaning, if squatting to quarter depth is okay, but anything past that brings on your familiar pain, then JUST STAY AT QUARTER DEPTH.
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🔥 While this is a fantastic way to train the quadriceps while minimizing forces on the knee cap joint, many times this is just not enough of a stimulus to truly bring about GAINZ in quadriceps size or strength. 3 sets of 10 of partial range squats is not going to get anyone’s quadriceps any stronger.
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💥 However, these same limited range (and lower weight/intensity) exercises can be augmented with blood flow restriction training to produce an extremely exaggerated muscle metabolic response that overtime can produce similar gains to high intensity training! It’s basically a cheat code to tax and stress the muscle while minimizing unwanted joint stresses below.
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🔍 In these series of clips of Mike’s client @milamarianaa, you can get a glimpse inside two of her rehab sessions (spaced a few weeks apart) for treating her knee cap pain utilizing BFR. She does all the same exercises in Phase I and Phase II, the only difference is that she has a cuff on her leg which turns a very easy exercise into an intense 5-minute metabolic soul-crushing quad burn!
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❓Interested in getting some BFR cuffs yourself❓You can score 10% off all cuff sets on our website using the code “TPG10”.
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📚 Interested in learning more about implementing BFR into your practice? We teach BFR courses around the world with @smarttoolsusa You can learn more on our website or by DMing us directly!